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00:00:00.000The American Medical Association pursues an anti-science agenda, Yale students invade the Yale-Harvard football game, and Michael Bloomberg officially enters the race.
00:00:31.000We'll get to those updates in a little bit, but the media's outsized attention to impeachment is obscuring the fact that there's some deep systemic change going on in the United States with regard particularly to hot button social issues.
00:00:42.000And a lot of this is being pushed by Folks who have an anti-science agenda inside the scientific community.
00:00:48.000Today's example, it's actually coming from last week.
00:00:51.000So late last week, the American Medical Association, according to the AMA website, gathered physician and medical student leaders from all corners of medicine at its interim meeting to shape guiding policies on emerging healthcare topics.
00:01:03.000The AMA's House of Delegates is the policy-making body at the center of American medicine.
00:01:07.000The policies adopted by the House of Delegates today, this would have been last week, like last Wednesday, Thursday, included, quote, The AMA supports state and federal bans on conversion therapy.
00:01:17.000Now, let me be clear before I go any further.
00:01:19.000When it comes to conversion therapy, no one, no one is in favor of electrocuting kids in order to make them not gay.
00:01:28.000No one is in favor of electroshock therapy for kids who are suffering from gender identity disorder or gender dysphoria, however you decide to use that term.
00:01:35.000When the AMA talks about conversion therapy, they are talking about your ability to bring your child to a psychologist and the psychologist Being able to tell your child that your child is in fact the sex to which he or she belongs.
00:01:49.000That's what they're saying explicitly.
00:01:51.000The AMA now wants to develop model state legislation and advocate for federal legislation to ban so-called Not only banning that, right?
00:01:57.000or conversion therapy for sexual orientation or gender identity.
00:02:01.000So not just with regard to you have a kid who's 12, thinks he is sexually confused about his orientation, and you want to take him to a therapist, and the therapist might be able to help him clarify some of those feelings or might be able to help your kid out of the struggle without telling them that they are explicitly gay, for example.
00:02:18.000Not only banning that, and not just banning it for adults, but not just banning for children, banning it for adults, right?
00:02:23.000So what the left would like is for there to be taxpayer sponsors sex changes But if you are 21 years old and you are bothered by your sexual orientation and want to talk to a psychologist, it would be illegal for the psychologist to talk to you about this in any way other than to affirm that you are indeed gay.
00:02:41.000Homosexuality here or sexual orientation.
00:02:43.000We are talking specifically about gender identity.
00:02:47.000So you bring your five-year-old to a psychologist because your five-year-old is expressing that they believe that they are a member of the opposite sex.
00:02:53.000The AMA wants to ban the psychologist from telling your kid that your kid is actually a member of the sex to which they belong.
00:02:59.000So you bring your five-year-old son to the doctor because your five-year-old son keeps maintaining he is a girl.
00:03:04.000The AMA wants to ban any therapy that does not say that your kid is a girl.
00:03:09.000That's what the American Medical Association... Okay, this is not science, as we will see.
00:03:14.000According to the AMA, the support for legislative bans strengthens AMA's long-standing opposition to this unscientific practice.
00:03:21.000Okay, first of all, let's just be frank about this.
00:03:23.000There's not a lot of evidence with regard to the various therapies that have been applied with regard to gender identity disorder or gender dysphoria, as we'll get to.
00:03:30.000The AMA heard testimony, including first-hand accounts regarding the specific harms triggered by conversion therapy, including depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and suicidal thoughts and attempts.
00:03:39.000AMA Board Member William Kobler, M.D., said it is clear to the AMA that the conversion therapy needs to end in the United States given the deliberate risk of harm to LGBTQ people.
00:03:48.000Conversion therapy has no foundation as scientifically valid medical care and lacks credible evidence to support its efficacy or safety.
00:03:56.000Hey, now, again, they want to make sure that if you bring your child to a doctor because your child is expressing gender confusion, we're not even talking sexual orientation anymore, gender confusion, that that would be illegal across the country.
00:04:11.000Toward folks on the social left suggesting that if you're a parent and you and your child goes to school and expresses that they're confused about gender and you don't affirm that your child is a member of the opposite gender that you are in fact a derelict parent and Child Protective Services comes for you, right?
00:04:24.000This is the direction we are moving and we are moving there incredibly quickly with the support of organizations like the AMA which are cutting directly against science.
00:04:31.000When I say they are cutting directly against science, I mean they are cutting directly against science because what exactly is the basis for this suggestion that that Quote-unquote conversion therapy, meaning talk therapy with your kid, is not only ineffective but counterproductive.
00:04:47.000It is one study, and one study alone, and the study happens to be junk science.
00:04:51.000It is one study, and it is politically driven, and it is junk science, and the AMA is using that to say that your psychologist can't engage in what basically is cognitive behavioral therapy with your kid.
00:05:01.000Cognitive behavioral therapy, by the way, is basically the only form of psychology that is known to work.
00:05:05.000The basic theory of cognitive behavioral therapy, CBT, is that you, as a person, you have thoughts, which leads to feelings, which leads to actions.
00:05:13.000And when it comes to fighting depression, what psychologists typically do is they teach you to disconnect thoughts, feelings, and actions.
00:05:19.000So your thoughts should not necessarily lead to feelings, and those feelings shouldn't necessarily lead to actions.
00:05:24.000Basically, the AMA wants to ban that with regard to children, with regard to children who are experiencing gender confusion, who may not understand the difference between boy and girl.
00:05:35.000And they're basing this all on one study, basically.
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00:07:12.000Okay, so, as I say, the American Medical Association, on the basis of literally one study, is now calling for a nationwide ban on what they call conversion therapy.
00:07:20.000And the very term conversion therapy is an attempt to conflate bad old conversion therapy, meaning, like, people being electroshocked when people thought they were gay, right, which no one is for, again, for the fifth time this show, With the basic idea that if I bring my kid to the doctor, my kid is gender confused, that the doctor is allowed to tell them that they are actually their genetic self, right?
00:07:39.000That they are actually a boy, or they are actually a girl.
00:08:00.000Jack Turbin happens to be an activist on this issue.
00:08:03.000And he states openly that the study was done in order to prove a case that he already believed.
00:08:09.000Turbin claims that the study was, quote, the first study to show that gender identity conversion efforts are associated with adverse mental health outcomes, including suicide attempts, and that previous reports showing the negative effects of conversion therapy have focused on efforts to change a person's sexual orientation rather than gender identity.
00:08:25.000And then Turbin turned to its political and legal value.
00:08:27.000He said, this is important because some experts continue to advocate for gender identity conversion efforts for young children.
00:08:36.000Unlike sexual orientation, where your feelings are the actual thing at issue, when it comes to gender identity, what is at issue is that your feelings are at odds with your actual biology.
00:08:48.000Sexual orientation and gender identity are not the same in a variety of ways, including the fact that gender identity is inextricably connected with your biology and your biology is reflected in your gender identity.
00:09:01.000And pretending that when the two are at odds, that this is not a big problem is ridiculous.
00:09:07.000When it comes to sexual orientation, again, your feelings are your feelings, but they are not at odds with your biology.
00:09:10.000Okay, when you're gender, when you're, when you are saying that your identity is in direct conflict with your biological sex, that is not a conversion attempt to say your biological sex exists and you need to change your thinking about your biological sex.
00:10:10.000So it was a survey that went out to a bunch of people who were deliberately identified as people who had relationships with transgender causes.
00:10:20.000So it's basically like sending a survey to activists.
00:10:22.000In other words, it is non-representative.
00:10:24.000And not only is it non-representative, it misses the entire point.
00:10:29.000It misses the entire point because if you send a survey out to people who identify as transgender and you ask them whether quote-unquote transgender conversion therapy worked for them when they were kids or whether it was damaging, what do you think they're going to say?
00:10:40.000That's like sending out a survey to a bunch of divorced adults and asking them how marriage therapy went and whether it's useful or whether it made them feel bad.
00:10:53.000I mean, it's like sending out a survey to people who have had a recurrence of cancer and asking them whether chemo made them feel bad or whether it helped them.
00:11:02.000Yes, well, once you know they've had a recurrence of cancer, then the chemo didn't help them all that much, did it?
00:11:32.000and are openly identifying as transgender, what do you think they're going to say when they said they saw a psychologist who said to them that they were a member of their original sex?
00:11:52.000It comes from a solitary question respondents were asked.
00:11:54.000Quote, did any professional, such as a psychologist, counselor, or religious advisor, try to make you identify only with your sex assigned at birth?
00:12:00.000In other words, try to stop you being trans.
00:12:04.000Okay, so that is literally anyone who did not just give you perfect affirmation of the idea that you were a member of the sex to which you were claiming identity.
00:12:13.000And they're saying that that is in and of itself damaging.
00:12:15.000So anybody who once said to you, no, you know what?
00:12:19.000That was conversion therapy under this particular definition.
00:12:23.000Steven Levine, a psychiatrist and long-time gender identity expert, highlights the quandary facing professionals attempting to counsel transgender patients on the biological, social, and psychological risks posed by any treatment approach.
00:12:36.000Such risks are real and ought to be discussed, but if you don't give somebody ethical, informed consent, then that is trying to stop you from being trans.
00:12:42.000So in other words, if you say to somebody, listen, if you actually want to commit a surgery where you mutilate your genitals, I mean, that is what the surgery does, that is gonna carry with it certain risks.
00:12:55.000It's going to carry with it certain medical risks.
00:12:56.000If you say that, that could be seen as gender identity conversion therapy under this survey.
00:13:03.000As Regnerus points out, the authors of the JAMA psychiatry study following the USTS's survey measurement aren't interested in subtleties.
00:13:10.000The authors paint an entire class of cautious therapeutic approaches as intrinsically harmful, sending a clear message to psychiatrists and psychotherapists alike.
00:13:18.000Scientifically, we learned nothing of the respondents' motivations for interacting with the professional in the first place.
00:13:22.000You don't even know whether people were depressed going in and depressed coming out.
00:13:26.000Also, as Regnerus points out, the data come from a non-random opt-in survey, the USTS, that only targeted networked, self-identified transgender or non-binary persons by advertising their survey among active transgender, LGBTQ, and allied organizations.
00:13:41.000Which again, is not only a non-random sample, you are specifically targeting people For whom the therapy did not work, right?
00:13:47.000I mean, that is, again, the base point here.
00:13:50.000If you keep targeting people for whom a therapy didn't work and ask them whether the therapy is harmful or helpful, they will of course tell you that the therapy is harmful.
00:13:58.000But this is not a representative cross-section.
00:14:00.000In fact, it's not even a representative cross-section of transgender people.
00:14:04.000As Regnerus points out, when compared with the 2017 study of the demographic characteristics of transgender adults from the CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, which is a population-based sample, the USGS respondents are really dissimilar.
00:14:17.000They have double the unemployment rate.
00:14:20.000They have double the number of male-to-female identity.
00:14:29.000Only 18% are married versus 50% in the BRFSS, so it's a completely non-representative sample, and you can't weight the sample, because, again, the sample is the sample, and that's the poll results.
00:14:38.000That's like taking a poll of only Republicans asking how they feel about Obama, and then weighting the sample.
00:14:45.000Also, the study then builds on dubious perceptions of representativeness by reporting confidence intervals, which is just nonsense.
00:14:53.000In sociological terms, that only works for probability samples, but this is not a probability sample, so that makes no sense at all.
00:15:00.000And then, of course, the authors are not interested in putting their implied causation to the test.
00:15:05.000Instead, a subtext of injustices committed against the respondents infuses the study, suggesting a decidedly external locus of control in the lives of transgender Americans.
00:15:14.000The narrative is interrupted only once, when the authors admit that it is possible that those with worse mental health or internalized transphobia may have been more likely to seek out conversion therapy rather than non-conversion therapy, suggesting conversion efforts themselves were not causative.
00:15:28.000But apparently that's not worth considering beyond that one line in the study.
00:15:32.000On the basis of this one single garbage study, the entire AMA just voted.
00:15:38.000It was actually a small section of the AMA, but now it represents the entire AMA, decided to vote in favor of pushing federal legislation banning psychologists and psychiatrists from informing children that they are in fact the sex of their birth.
00:15:51.000This is not only non-scientific, it is politically driven crap, and it's incredibly dangerous.
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00:17:04.000Okay, now this has been a long-time trend, unfortunately, with regard to political hot-button issues.
00:17:09.000In the American Psychiatric Association, which produces the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, for example, and in the AMA, is politics driving medicine and not the other way around.
00:17:20.000This is why the DSM-5 reclassified Gender Identity Disorder not as Gender Identity Dysphoria, but as Gender Dysphoria.
00:17:42.000They said when it comes to access to care, many of the treatment options for this condition include counseling, cross-sex hormones, gender reassignment surgery, and social and legal transition to the desired gender.
00:17:51.000To get insurance coverage for the medical treatments, individuals need a diagnosis.
00:17:55.000In other words, they're even saying that if it had been up to them, politically, they would have removed gender dysphoria as a diagnosis at all from the DSM-5.
00:18:13.000But, just so we can make sure that you're covered by your insurance, we'll call it gender dysphoria.
00:18:16.000But really, there's nothing wrong with you unless you get depressed because of your gender dysphoria.
00:18:21.000They say part of removing stigma is about choosing the right words.
00:18:24.000Replacing disorder with dysphoria in the diagnostic label is not only more appropriate and consistent with familiar clinical sexology terminology, it also removes the connotation the patient is disordered.
00:18:34.000But of course your gender identity is disordered.
00:18:38.000Ultimately, the changes regarding gender dysphoria in DSM-5 respect the individuals identified by offering a diagnostic name that is more appropriate to the symptoms and behavior they experience without jeopardizing their access to effective treatment options.
00:18:50.000There is literally no evidence that gender identity disorder is not a disorder.
00:18:54.000All of this was just determined by a bunch of politically active people inside the APA.
00:18:59.000And you've seen the same thing inside the AMA.
00:19:57.000Okay, but based on this, based on this, apparently, apparently that is enough to change the entire medical diagnosis of a specific subset.
00:20:06.000And then the goal is going to be exactly what it has been for years.
00:20:09.000Again, it's not going to stop with your kid has a problem and you can't bring them to a psychologist or a psychiatrist to get some even Even watchful waiting, right?
00:20:17.000There are a few different treatments that have been considered here.
00:20:22.000The second is watchful waiting, which is you don't affirm the chosen quote-unquote gender of the child.
00:20:28.000Instead, you just say, listen, we're going to wait on this, and we're going to help you through whatever pain you're experiencing, and then we'll see if you grow out of it or you don't.
00:20:34.000That itself could be classified as gender conversion therapy.
00:20:37.000Instead, the left only wants gender affirmation.
00:20:45.000Okay, the way this will work is that eventually, as soon as a kid goes to a public school, and the public school hears that your kid is saying that they are a member of the opposite sex, and the kid comes home, and you say, no you're not, you're a boy, if you're a boy, you're a boy, and your kid goes back to school, they'll call CPS on you.
00:21:04.000There's a great piece in National Review about all of this, the latest issue of National Review by Madeline Kearns called The Tragedy of the Trans Child.
00:21:10.000And she talks specifically about the ridiculousness of where all of this started.
00:21:16.000She says humans are a sexually dimorphic species.
00:21:18.000Females produce eggs and bear offspring.
00:21:20.000Males produce sperm and impregnate females.
00:21:21.000The existence of disorders of sexual development, or more imprecisely and potentially offensively, intersex persons and the need for greater social understanding of them in no way collapses this distinction.
00:21:31.000In the 1950s, the relationship between the terms sex and gender, the latter of which applied chiefly to grammar, began to change as sexologists coined the phrase gender identity to denote the sex that one believed one was.
00:21:43.000And then, of course, there was a very famous case in the 1960s where a psychologist named John Money conducted a twin study in which a male baby, Bruce Reimer, with a damaged penis was raised as a girl.
00:21:52.000His brother, Brian, was raised as a boy.
00:21:55.000Money instructed the parents to raise their children to believe that Bruce was really a girl called Brenda.
00:21:59.000To make a long story short, both brothers ended up killing themselves.
00:22:05.000I mean, that is not particularly surprising given the fact that biology is biology.
00:22:10.000The fact is that children cannot make rational decisions.
00:22:13.000Not providing them the care that they require is an act of evil.
00:22:16.000And you are seeing medical professionals cave into political correctness specifically because they don't want to buck up against the prevailing political winds.
00:22:25.000There's a reason that you are seeing the number of people identifying as transgender skyrocketing across the world.
00:22:31.000I mean, skyrocketing in Britain, skyrocketing in the United States.
00:22:34.000Britain has a huge gender youth clinic, sorry.
00:22:37.000It is now around, apparently, In 2009, they took in 100 kids a year in 2009 at this huge youth clinic in Britain.
00:22:45.000Now, they are taking in 2,500 kids a year.
00:22:48.000Do you think that is a natural reflection of biology or do you think that maybe this has to do with the politically correct notion that if your kid is gender identity confused, that the best thing you can do is immediately get them into a program that reinstills the confusion?
00:23:01.000Sky News reported hundreds of young transgender people are now seeking help to return to their original sex, but you're not allowed to talk about any of this in the general medical community.
00:23:09.000If you do, you are considered a science denier.
00:23:14.000Psychology Today published that study I talked about before, with the Harvard psychiatrist and medical researcher Jack Turban, where he published the summary.
00:23:21.000A bunch of medical professionals pushed their critiques in the comments.
00:23:24.000Psychology Today simply deleted their comments.
00:23:28.000This is all misinformation, or a huge percentage of it is misinformation, but as long as you pretend that it's science, you can pretend that people who stand in favor of actual biological science are the actual science deniers, and that their children should eventually be removed from them.
00:23:40.000By the way, if you think that that's a scare tactic, I promise you, it's already coming to Canada, and it is not long before it comes to the United States as well.
00:23:49.000These sorts of culture wars do matter.
00:23:50.000You saw this in James Younger in Texas.
00:23:52.000It's going to come to the rest of the country.
00:23:53.000It will, if the social left has its way, the radical social left.
00:23:56.000I would imagine even most liberals don't believe in this sort of nonsense.
00:23:59.000But the media do, and so they will continue to push it.
00:24:01.000In a second, we'll get to more bad science being pushed as virtue in just one second.
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00:25:16.000Okay, meanwhile, speaking of bad science being pushed in the name of virtue, over the weekend, something incredibly stupid happened.
00:25:23.000So there was a Harvard-Yale football game.
00:25:26.000Hundreds of climate change activists swarmed the field during halftime of the football game.
00:25:31.000They delayed the action for nearly an hour as students chanted OK Boomer while police made arrests and issued summonses for disorderly conduct.
00:26:16.000Yes, I am sure that we are going to deprive third world peoples of their access to carbon-based fuels because a bunch of privileged yuppies who go to Yale and Harvard tell other privileged yuppies at Yale and Harvard they need to cut their investment in carbon fuels.
00:26:31.000A Yale spokesperson expressed disapproval of the interruption.
00:26:33.000A Harvard representative said the school respectfully disagrees with divestment activists over how to confront climate change.
00:26:40.000Naturally, the students were thrilled.
00:26:42.000The administration allowed this to go on, by the way.
00:26:43.000The Yale authority should have immediately arrested everybody because that is just a public act of criminality.
00:26:50.000And I promise you, if that had been 500 kids rushing the field to protest on behalf of not aborting babies, they would have been arrested within five seconds, and you wouldn't get the large cheers.
00:26:59.000Officials asked protesters to leave very nicely.
00:27:02.000They always have to be very delicate with these kids.
00:27:04.000Another 100 students unaffiliated with the divest movement walked onto the field to join them.
00:27:09.000Some fans booed said the protest humiliated the schools, because it did.
00:27:12.000Chuck Crummey, 68, who attended the game with his son, a former Yale football player, said, They're all supposed to be intelligent people.
00:27:17.000Looks like there's a lot of common sense missed their generation.
00:27:20.000Goes to show this generation is all about themselves and not a football game.
00:27:24.000Roy Emanuelson said of Yale, which entered the game 8-1, They're playing for the Ivy League title here, maybe costing the Ivy League championship.
00:27:29.000By the way, because of this delay, which lasted an hour, the game almost had to be called on behalf of darkness, because they don't have lights at this stadium.
00:27:49.000New Haven police didn't provide comment.
00:27:51.000The protest caused a delay of little over an hour and caused the game, which went into double overtime, to end in near darkness because the Yale Bull does not have lights.
00:28:00.000Naturally, what you saw is a bunch of Democrats cheering this thing.
00:28:05.000Advocates of divestment have expressed impatience as school officials say true independence from fossil fuels is impossible to achieve and argue they can use their positions as shareholders to sway companies' practices.
00:28:15.000Apparently they want Yale and Harvard to stop investing in any company that uses fossil fuels, which is to say all the companies.
00:28:22.000Hey, Harvard's captain then virtue-signaled over all of this.
00:28:32.000Here's Harvard's captain talking about how vital it was for students to delay a Harvard-Yale football game to demonstrate that climate change is bad, and the sun is bad, and people using carbon fossil fuels is bad.
00:28:44.000At this moment, both of our institutions continue to invest in the industries destroying our futures.
00:28:49.000And when it comes to the climate crisis, no one wins.
00:28:52.000Harvard and Yale can't claim to truly promote knowledge while at the same time supporting the companies engaged in misleading the public, smearing academics, and denying the truth.
00:29:00.000That's why we're joining together with our friends at Yale to call for change.
00:29:03.000In solidarity with my friends at Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard and Fossil Free Yale, who disrupted today's proceedings, many of my teammates and I are wearing orange wristbands, the color of the divest movement, after the game.
00:29:14.000We're coming together to call upon Presidents Bacow and Salovey to divest from the fossil fuel industry now, for the sake of our generation.
00:29:22.000Really, for the sake of your generation, you're going to divest from fossil fuels?
00:29:25.000What does he think it took to make the iPhone that he's presumably speaking into?
00:29:34.000None of this is designed to actually accomplish anything.
00:29:36.000It's all designed to virtue signal on behalf of crap solutions that don't actually accomplish what they seek to accomplish.
00:29:42.000The same people who are pushing this kind of stuff say that we can't Use natural gas, which has been solely responsible in the United States for every decline in emissions.
00:29:50.000And also, we are not supposed to use nuclear power, which would be the other available alternative.
00:29:57.000Harvard has about $39 billion of endowment investment in fossil fuels, and Harvard faculty members are calling for divestment from all of that.
00:30:07.000But of course, that would require basically divesting from every major company, because all major companies have at least some investment in fossil fuels.
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00:32:52.000Okay, so Yale has already divested partially from fossil fuels, but its chief investment officer, David Swenson, said that overhauling the university's investment portfolio would be foolish because, quote, we would all die if fossil fuel production stopped, which is true.
00:33:15.000The whole thing is idiotic, and the fact that Yale authorities went along with it, the fact that Yale let these kids stop the game for an hour to be obnoxious, It's pretty ridiculous on its face.
00:34:31.000By the way, all those young people, you know what they can do today?
00:34:32.000They can give up those Harvard and Yale scholarships for third world people who wish to come here and not engage in fossil fuel use the rest of their lives.
00:34:41.000Or, alternatively, they can pretend that they are very virtuous while they go down there and selfie themselves with their iPhones created with the use of fossil fuels.
00:34:48.000Julian Castro, the most irrelevant of all possible Democratic candidates, said, Oh, well, are you inspired or are you just pandering to young people who don't know what they're talking about?
00:34:56.000I'm inspired by their efforts to hold their universities to a higher standard.
00:34:59.000Oh, well, are you inspired or are you just pandering to young people who don't know what they're talking about?
00:35:04.000Tom Steyer, who has blown something like 300 – last I heard it was like a couple hundred million dollars on his quixotic presidential campaign that currently has 0% support.
00:35:14.000He says, these students have it right.
00:35:16.000Nobody wins when we're complicit in climate injustice.
00:35:18.000Institutions like Harvard and Yale must be leaders in the fight to address the climate crisis.
00:35:24.000I mean, they're doing all the research.
00:35:25.000And then you've got AOC, who naturally, with her massively impressive degree from BU in economics, Tweets, activism disrupts the present to change the future with an emoji of a globe.
00:36:03.000Okay, so I did a speech at Boston at, uh, actually this one was at Baylor University last week.
00:36:07.000In the speech at Baylor University, I spent probably 15 minutes talking about climate change.
00:36:11.000I talked about possible solutions, and one of the things that I talked about is the fact that according to the left, there's no need for a solution.
00:36:16.000This is all about yelling at the problem.
00:36:18.000If you just yell at the problem, then it's gonna go away.
00:36:20.000So if you show up at a Yale-Harvard football game, and you yell at the problem, then magically it gets better.
00:36:26.000But this is what so many on the radical left desire.
00:36:30.000They just want to yell about problems.
00:36:32.000And then they want to claim that they're victims when people point out that what they are doing is dumb.
00:36:37.000If you point out that this was a dumb protest that delayed a football game and nearly led Yale to lose its Ivy League championship, which, you know, look, in the grand scheme of things, is that a big deal?
00:36:45.000No, but there are players on the field.
00:36:53.000But by disrupting and then being cheered on by Democrats, this is the same kind of garbage that students were doing in the 1960s, taking over universities and the authorities were basically sitting there allowing people who are disrupting to prop their feet up on the desks and take over administrations.
00:37:08.000You wonder why more and more Americans look skeptically at college.
00:37:14.000But that's not the limit of the support for dumb activism.
00:37:18.000Ta-Nehisi Coates has an incredible piece in the New York Times today called The Cancellation of Colin Kaepernick.
00:37:22.000Ta-Nehisi Coates, the would-be James Baldwin who can't write or speak nearly as well as James Baldwin, and happens to live off the fat of the land while complaining about how terrible America is.
00:37:37.000And complaining about how America is terrible.
00:37:41.000But praised, because obviously he writes with purple passion.
00:37:45.000Coates has a piece called The Cancellation of Colin Kaepernick, in which he likens Colin Kaepernick to Muhammad Ali, who, lest it be forgotten, lost several years of his career to protesting the Vietnam War.
00:37:55.000He likens him to Jack Johnson, who was banned from boxing for the great sin of being involved in an interracial relationship.
00:38:02.000Colin Kaepernick was benched for Blaine Gabbard in 2015 because he stunk.
00:38:07.000The immortal, Hall of Fame NFL player, Blaine Gabbard, he was benched for him.
00:38:11.000And then, a few months later, he decided, you know what, I'm gonna do him an anneal for the National Anthem, and then he's made millions of bucks off of it.
00:38:17.000And then, over the last couple of weeks, he played this game with the NFL where the NFL offered him, basically, a combine tryout.
00:38:23.000And he proceeded to ignore them, hold his own combine tryout, and then suggest that he was so good in the combine tryout that only racism could explain why he wasn't being signed by an NFL team.
00:38:31.000Well, maybe it's the fact that you're not very good and you're a pain in the ass.
00:38:46.000Ta-Nehisi Coates has a long piece today about how Colin Kaepernick is a victim of American society.
00:38:52.000And he compares him to Ida B. Wells, Paul Robeson, who is a singer, who's a black communist, and also was blackballed because of his communism, and the Dixie Chicks.
00:39:03.000Who, by the way, made a deliberate choice to go extremely political in the country music realm.
00:39:08.000What did they think was going to happen?
00:39:11.000I mean, Ta-Nehisi Coates is so over the top.
00:39:14.000Every one of his columns is basically comparing two things that are completely unalike.
00:39:18.000He literally compares Colin Kaepernick to the Compromise of 1877, which ended Reconstruction in the South.
00:39:31.000I'm not a fan of cancel culture, but what happened to Colin Kaepernick is not in any way similar to the Compromise of 1877, which led to a century of Jim Crow.
00:39:41.000And running roughshod of the KKK and lynching.
00:39:57.000I'm not without sympathy for the morally panicked who fear their kids are not right, who are not alright.
00:40:01.000But it is good to remember that while every generation believes in invented sex, every preceding generation forgets it once believed the same thing.
00:40:09.000Besides, all cancellations are not created equal.
00:40:11.000Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Brett Kavanaugh at his Supreme Court confirmation hearings of sexual assault, was inundated with death threats, forced from her home, driven into hiding.
00:40:19.000Dave Chappelle, accused of transphobia, collected millions from Netflix for a series of stand-up specials and got his feelings hurt.
00:40:24.000First of all, nobody cancelled Christine Blasey Ford.
00:40:27.000That's a bunch of evil people targeting people with death threats.
00:40:31.000The point with Dave Chappelle is that the cancel culture trying to come after Dave Chappelle was idiotic because he's a man who tells jokes.
00:40:37.000But what happened to Colin Kaepernick is not cancel culture, the man was given a million dollar contract with Nike to kneel for the national anthem and suck at football.
00:40:44.000And now he's complaining about sucking at football.
00:40:47.000But Ta-Nehisi Coates, again, this is all virtue signaling, as a substitute for actual virtue.
00:40:52.000Ta-Nehisi Coates says, it seems Mr. Kaepernick's sin, refusing to stand for the national anthem, offends the NFL's suddenly delicate sensibilities.
00:40:58.000The NFL let him kneel for a year and a half, and let everyone else in the NFL kneel too.
00:41:04.000The NFL didn't punish anyone for kneeling.
00:41:06.000The NFL allowed NFL players to run out on the field in the middle of the Michael Brown scenario, shouting, hands up, don't shoot, with their hands in the air, which was a total and complete lie, slandering police officers across America.
00:41:17.000But, Coates says, While the influence of hashtags should not be underestimated, the NFL has a different power at its fingertips, the power of monopoly.
00:41:24.000Effectively, Mr. Kaepernick's cancellation bars him from making a living at a skill he has been honing since childhood.
00:41:30.000It is true he has found gainful employment with Nike, but only so much solace can be taken in this, given that Mr. Kaepernick's opponents occupy not just boardrooms and owner boxes, but the White House.
00:41:42.000Ta-Nehisi Coates is doing just fine, and he's helping out Colin Kaepernick.
00:41:45.000Again, Nike is one of the world's biggest companies.
00:41:49.000This is a sobering process that began with the broadcast beatings of civil rights marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma in 1965, then accelerated with the recorded police brutality against Rodney King, has achieved its zenith with the social media sharing of the executions of Walter Scott, Laquan McDonald, and Daniel Shaver.
00:42:08.000Are we really comparing all of these things?
00:42:11.000And we're comparing those to Colin Kaepernick?
00:42:14.000He says the new cancel culture is the product of a generation born into a world without obscuring myth, where the great abuses, once only hinted at, suspected, or uttered on street corners, are now tweeted out in full color.
00:42:23.000Nothing is sacred anymore, and most important, nothing is legitimate.
00:42:26.000Least of all, those institutions charged with dispensing justice.
00:42:29.000And so justice is seized by the crowd.
00:42:33.000He says this is suboptimal, but the choice would now seem to be between building egalitarian institutions capable of withstanding public scrutiny or further retreat into a dissembling fog.
00:42:42.000It's funny to hear Ta-Nehisi Coates say this.
00:42:43.000Ta-Nehisi Coates was one of the chief editors over at The Atlantic when they decided to cancel my friend Kevin Williamson for the great sin of being pro-life.
00:42:52.000But he's saying we need egalitarian institutions willing to stand up to the cancel culture, except it depends on which part of the cancel culture he opposes.
00:42:59.000Oh man, the virtue signaling is strong with this one.
00:43:01.000But again, the virtue signaling is all about how America sucks, so that's real virtue.
00:43:22.000Over the weekend and discharged from the hospital she's now 86.
00:43:24.000She's had a series of health scares in the past year.
00:43:28.000Her symptoms apparently abated after treatment with IV antibiotics and fluids.
00:43:33.000She had surgery for lung cancer and radiation for pancreatic cancer in the past year.
00:43:38.000If something were to happen to her, I mean, the tenor of American politics, which is always so incredibly high, would just skyrocket dramatically.
00:43:47.000Meanwhile, Michael Bloomberg is jumping into the race, and Michael Bloomberg has set some rules for Bloomberg News, covering him and covering the presidential race, which should tell you where all of these news organizations were from the very beginning, because the only thing that's wrong with what Michael Bloomberg's news organization has to say about how it covers the race is that Michael Bloomberg is now being honest about it.
00:44:06.000So first, here's Michael Bloomberg's ad for the presidency.
00:44:10.000He's going to spend a boatload of his own money in order to start garnering some support.
00:44:15.000The person hardest hit, if Michael Bloomberg should start to garner some support, could theoretically be Joe Biden, but I think probably he cannibalizes Pete Buttigieg instead.
00:44:23.000Here's Michael Bloomberg, his first ad.
00:44:28.000Mike Bloomberg started as a middle-class kid who had to work his way through college, then built a business from a single room to a global entity, creating tens of thousands of good-paying jobs along the way.
00:44:41.000But when New York suffered the terrible tragedy of 9-11, he took charge, becoming a three-term mayor who brought a city back from the ashes and brought back jobs and hope with it.
00:44:53.000Mike Bloomberg for president, jobs creator, leader, Okay, so the fact is Bloomberg's going nowhere in this race, but his presence in the race does shake things up if he starts to gain at least a little bit of support from the institutional investors who might go to Biden or who might otherwise go to Buttigieg.
00:45:12.000Okay, meanwhile, Bloomberg News has announced its policies with regard to how it's going to cover this race.
00:45:18.000So they're shutting down Bloomberg Opinion.
00:45:20.000Bloomberg Opinion is now shut down because Michael Bloomberg is running for president.
00:45:23.000So according to Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwaite, he says the place where Mike has had the most contact with editorial is Bloomberg Opinion.
00:45:29.000Our editorials have reflected his views.
00:45:30.000David Shipley, Tim O'Brien, some members of the board responsible for those editorials will take leave of absence to join Mike's campaign.
00:45:41.000So Bloomberg's newsroom is now overtly saying, according to the editor-in-chief, the newsroom will not be investigating Bloomberg and they will extend the same policy to his rivals in the Democratic primaries.
00:45:52.000We cannot treat Mike's Democratic competitors differently from him.
00:45:55.000For the moment, our investigations team will continue to investigate the Trump administration as the government of the day.
00:46:00.000If Mike is chosen as the Democratic presidential candidate and Trump emerges as the Republican one, we will reassess how to do that.
00:46:08.000So in other words, this has always been a tool of Michael Bloomberg.
00:46:10.000And the line between news and editorial?
00:46:14.000Because if it were really clear, they would have just said, listen, we're going to keep reporting on everybody, including Michael Bloomberg, because the line between news and editorial has always been clear.
00:46:21.000But they are now openly admitting that the newsroom was not separate from the editorial room.
00:46:25.000So now the newsroom has been specifically tasked with not investigating Michael Bloomberg, which means they can't investigate any of the other Democrats, because otherwise it becomes a partisan tool.
00:46:34.000Then they have to admit that this was always Michael Bloomberg's tool, the newsroom.
00:46:37.000And so they're saying, we just won't go after the Democrats, but we'll continue to go after Trump.
00:46:40.000Which means now this is a Democratic newspaper, right?
00:46:43.000I mean, that's the only way to read this.
00:46:45.000Mikkel Thwaite says, I think this is a structure that can cope with many eventualities.
00:46:49.000No doubt many of you are already thinking of possible complexities that may arise.
00:46:52.000My response is, let's get back to work.
00:46:54.000We can spend a long time debating what ifs.
00:46:56.000I would rather we got on with the journalism and let that speak for itself.
00:47:02.000Pretty incredible that they are now pushing.
00:47:05.000Bloomberg is now saying, we will investigate Trump.
00:47:06.000We will not investigate any Democrat because Bloomberg is a Democrat and we can't investigate him.
00:47:10.000So we won't investigate any of the other Democrats.
00:47:12.000It's an amazing, amazing statement about where the media are, because we know that this is the same thing happening at the New York Times, right?
00:47:18.000We know this is the same thing happening at the Washington Post.
00:47:20.000We at the Daily Wire are honest enough to admit our biases and explain that the division between news and editorial is not a solid line, that there is opinionated news that goes in.
00:47:31.000But Bloomberg News didn't say that for years.
00:47:33.000For years it was, this is an objective news source, Bloomberg News.
00:47:35.000And you get the same thing from the New York Times, the same thing from the Washington Post, and this statement completely blows all of that up.
00:47:42.000Because again, it is now Michael Bloomberg's newspaper admitting, we are not going to investigate Michael Bloomberg because he owns us, and so we won't investigate any of the Democrats, because that wouldn't be fair.
00:47:51.000And then maybe if he's the nominee, and then, so what what?
00:47:54.000If he isn't the nominee, they go back to investigating the Democrats?
00:48:00.000Meanwhile, by the way, Pete Buttigieg is about to get the Elizabeth Warren treatment.
00:48:05.000He's been climbing in the polls and now he is going to be targeted at the center of this 2020 campaign because he's leading in Iowa and New Hampshire.
00:48:13.000Meet the press when after Buttigieg over the weekend.
00:48:15.000Expect for many more attacks like this in the coming weeks.
00:48:19.000She's reinforcing a point that many people have made.
00:48:20.000You can't engage in an oppression derby.
00:48:22.000The Jews, the blacks, the Italians, the gays.
00:48:25.000By the way, you're always going to lose.
00:48:26.000Whatever derby, you're always going to lose.
00:48:59.000So, there's a fairly solid understanding in most American historical writing that America's founding was Deist.
00:49:05.000That most of the major American founders were Deists who didn't necessarily believe in the specific The specifics of Christianity, this is certainly true of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, and mostly true of John Adams as well.
00:49:16.000But, there were a bunch of founders who obviously were deep and believed in Christians, and of course, even the deists were heavily involved in a philosophy of Christianity.
00:49:26.000Even if they did not believe in some of the miraculous claims of Christianity, that was certainly true of John Adams, who said that the Constitution was written for a moral and religious people and was utterly inadequate to the cause of any other.
00:49:37.000There's a good new book out by Mark David Hall.
00:49:39.000From Thomas Nelson called did America have a Christian founding that sort of takes the other side of the view that America did in fact have a Christian founding.
00:49:45.000Now my own view of this is that the Christian roots, the Judeo-Christian historical and moral roots of the founding are fairly obvious.
00:49:54.000That the founding of America, yes, was based on the writings of John Locke and the writings of Montesquieu, but it was also based on an underlying ethos that was derived from both a notion of British citizenship and from a Judeo-Christian ethic that was prevalent in the United States and in the West at the time.
00:50:10.000And that the American Revolution was not designed to forcibly separate the American people from those Judeo-Christian ethics.
00:50:15.000In fact, it was designed to wed them to the ethics in the social sphere, while allowing government to operate free of religious bigotry at the top level.
00:50:23.000The book is definitely an interesting source.
00:50:24.000Did America Have a Christian Founding?
00:50:27.000And worth reading, along with a book that I recommended last week about America's Revolutionary Mind by C. Bradley Thompson.
00:50:34.000Those are both interesting, interesting books.
00:50:35.000OK, other things that I – you know, let's do a quick thing that I hate.
00:50:39.000So the New York Times is now suggesting that there has been a vast spike in support for a public option because a lot of voters are not interested in Medicare for all.
00:50:52.000The Democrats, of course, are pushing Medicare for all incredibly hard, but a bunch of Democrats are realizing that this is a big mistake and so they've been pushing for the so-called public option.
00:50:59.000So we need to explain what the public option is and why the public option is a bad idea.
00:51:03.000Republicans push very hard against a public option in Obamacare.
00:51:05.000Many Democrats were not comfortable with a public option in Obamacare.
00:51:17.000Problem number one, employers now have an interest in downgrading you to part-times that you are covered by Medicare.
00:51:24.000And then they don't have to take care of your medical insurance.
00:51:28.000Two, the people who are most likely to end up on a public option are the people who are the sickest and the oldest and require the most care, which means that they are not risk pooled with other people.
00:51:38.000It means that private insurance is going to be upcharged by doctors in order to compensate for the fact that Medicare tends to undercharge.
00:51:45.000Medicare's reimbursement rates are somewhere from 60 to 80 percent.
00:51:49.000Private insurance is somewhere over 100% usually, and what that means is that if you are in the private insurance sector, your costs will go up as the public option grows.
00:51:57.000Either you'll have to pay additional tax dollars in order to pay for all of the new people who are on the public option, or you'll have to pay through additional premiums.
00:52:07.000Either the public option is real crap, in other words, it's not as good as the private option, doctors don't take it, doctors either have to be forced to take it, right, which is a cram down, Or, doctors are not forced to take it, in which case a lot of doctors decide they are not going to work with the public option because it undercharges them, right?
00:52:23.000It underdelivers in terms of their payments.
00:52:25.000In which case, again, they either have to be forced or the government has to raise the reimbursement rates.
00:52:30.000If the government raises reimbursement rates to the point where it's competitive with private insurance, then the government and Democrats and employers will use that as an excuse to push for a single-payer healthcare system.
00:52:41.000At which point, when everybody is thrown onto the single-payer healthcare system, then the entire system goes back to being a system of scarcity.
00:52:47.000So what you could see is the government rev up spending on a public option in order to compete with the private option.
00:52:52.000The private option goes defunct through regulation and through mandates.
00:52:56.000And at that point, we have a single payer healthcare system, at which point the spending ratchets back down and you end up with all of the evils of Medicare for all.
00:53:01.000So it's always been seen by most analysts, the public option as step one toward a Medicare for all system.
00:53:09.000Well, Democrats are pushing this right now because they understand that the final outcome is not something Americans want.
00:53:14.000They get that Americans are not pleased with the idea of being thrown off their private insurance, so instead they're looking for a step-by-step approach.
00:53:21.000According to the New York Times, they believe that this is going to gain credibility.
00:53:25.000The New York Times says the proposal would allow people of all incomes who aren't old enough for Medicare to choose health coverage through a new government-run plan that would compete with private insurance known by the less-than-catchy shorthand public option.
00:53:35.000That means, again, the only people who are actually going to enter this public option are going to be people who are too sick to get private insurance, people who are unemployed, or, if the public option is really ramped up, people who are pushed into the public option because the public option is actually really good for the moment, and then private insurance collapses, there's no reason for competition, and then the monopoly kicks in.
00:53:55.000A decade ago, the issue created such deep internal demissions among Senate Democrats, they ultimately dropped the idea from their bill, even though the public option was strongly favored by many liberals and a majority of House Democrats.
00:54:05.000But now, it seems as though a public option is looking like a safe moderate position and even a realistic policy goal, according to the New York Times.
00:54:12.000Warren says that she would start her presidency by pushing for a public option.
00:54:17.000About two-thirds of voters like the idea of a public option or a Medicare buy-in, according to several recent national polls, until they are told about the cost, of course.
00:54:24.000Large majorities of Democrats and Independents favored a public option in Kaiser's November poll.
00:54:35.000Yeah, it's going to cost you more money, either through taxes or through your up-charged private insurance, which is used, again, to pay the doctors who are mandated to take the public option.
00:54:44.000Dr. Alexandra Argosinski, 56, an internist who buttonholed Biden about his plan in Concord, said, I think our goal should be to try to get everybody in America to have health insurance.
00:54:52.000I think the easiest and fastest way is what Biden is proposing to have the public option.
00:54:56.000Polls suggest voters have become unnerved.
00:55:00.000By the price tags of the Warren and Sanders Medicare-for-all plans, support for such an approach has narrowed in recent months as people begin to understand what it would actually involve.
00:55:08.000A Kaiser Family Foundation poll of voters in Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin found that 62% of those who are undecided or are still persuadable believe a national Medicare-for-all plan that would eliminate private insurance is a bad idea.
00:55:24.000The public option plans offered by Biden and Buttigieg would require much less federal spending than Warren's $21 trillion proposal.
00:55:31.000By the way, that's a wild underestimate.
00:55:32.000It would actually cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $33 trillion.
00:55:35.000Biden says his plan would cost $750 billion over 10 years.
00:55:38.000Buttigieg says it would cost $1.5 trillion.
00:55:40.000It would cost a lot more than that because there has never yet been a government spending program that was underestimated.
00:55:47.000That was overestimated in terms of cost, rather.
00:55:50.000Biden and Buttigieg's plans would automatically enroll uninsured Americans into the new government health plan and allow anyone else to opt in if they wish.
00:55:58.000Both candidates would offer more generous premium subsidies than the Obamacare provides and cap people's premium costs at 8.5% of their income.
00:56:06.000People with premium subsidies would have deductibles of about $1,000 or less.
00:56:11.000So basically, there'd be a very small opt-in mandate.
00:56:13.000Your premium cost would be 8.5% of your income, which is not going to pay for the amount that's going to be taken out of a public option, obviously.
00:56:23.000Warren is proposing it overtly as a bridge.
00:56:25.000She says that it'll be there for three years, and then everybody's gonna love it so much that they're gonna opt into Medicare for All.
00:56:32.000But the fact is, even the public option is a bad option.
00:56:36.000The public option has long been seen, again, as a first step toward nationalized healthcare, and trying to play it as some sort of a wonderful idea that is popular with the American people is really... It's a stretch, it's a stretch, but everything looks moderate.
00:56:55.000I mean, once you get to the point where a public option is seen as moderate, you've gone too far to the left.
00:57:04.000And everybody sort of acknowledges that a public option is a bad idea.
00:57:09.000Sima Verma is administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
00:57:12.000She has an editorial from July called, I'm the administrator of Medicaid and Medicare.
00:57:18.000This is according to the Washington Post, right?
00:57:20.000She says, a common proposal, the public option, would introduce a government-run plan into the commercial health insurance market or alternatively allow consumers under 65 to buy into Medicare.
00:57:30.000Simply calling something moderate doesn't make it so.
00:57:32.000As an administrator of the two largest public healthcare programs in the country, Medicare and Medicaid, I can say these programs face major fiscal challenges.
00:57:39.000Those who seek to expand them do so because of their expected lower price tag on premiums, but there's a simple explanation that makes the low cost considerably less alluring.
00:57:47.000Public programs pay healthcare providers less than private payers.
00:57:52.000According to a study in Health Affairs, private insurance in 2012 paid hospitals approximately 75% more than Medicare did for similar inpatient services.
00:58:00.000Medicaid payment rates were even lower than Medicare rates.
00:58:02.000That's why a substantial proportion of providers, 30%, don't accept new patients on Medicaid.
00:58:08.000Rather than expand public programs for future generations, Americans are more interested in protecting the viability of these programs into the future.
00:58:14.000Further, low prices imposed on doctors and hospitals can't stop health care costs from rising, and they continuously do, because someone has to pay the bill.
00:58:22.000Namely, everybody in the private insurance market.
00:58:25.000At the same time, a public option is backed by the federal government, which creates a host of problems.
00:58:30.000Public options can turn to taxpayers to bail them out, but private players have no such luxury.
00:58:34.000So they have to compete for consumers, but without market pressure on the bottom line, an expanded government plan would balloon uncontrollably, crowd out private options, push consumers off private plans, and reduce choice as private plans flee the market.
00:58:46.000Which, of course, is exactly what's going to happen, and this is the plan.
00:58:49.000So anybody who sees Buttigieg and Biden's plan as some sort of moderate trade-off is just getting the answer wrong.